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By Lee Carroll –

This live channeling was given in Columbus Ohio on April 10, 2016.

Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. The entourage is still here and the listeners of the future are here. Dear listener of the future, isn’t it interesting that right now for some is really the past? But somehow, we are all together, in the “now.”

The teaching of the day is that, by design, the Human Being is becoming a bit more multi-dimensional each year. The processes of your reality and your life can shift this way because the new tools are becoming part of your regular, conscious life. Human nature will begin to change, and a shift in your awareness is at hand. All this will help you practice getting around the old habits and the old ways of life if you wish.

Change is tough. Change is tough because it begets [creates] other things that are also tough. You change one thing and other things around you change. You intuitively know this, and there’s a resistance to it. This resistance is totally normal and common, and eventually, you will get through the discomfort. The interesting thing is that we wish to tell you about, and perhaps even convince you of, is this: The changes you make today are not only going to create more changes but also more benevolence. God is in love with you so much that this God, this creative source, sees what you do and matches the benevolence of it with synchronicity.

This whole concept defies your reality and your physics. Trusting in the unseen is tough! However, Spirit has multi-dimensionality, and you don’t. Spirit loves you so much that the reward for your trust will be that everything you do will have “a benevolent shine” upon it. You’re going to feel better about what you’re doing than ever before, and you’re going to enjoy it.

Imagine stepping into the unknown and being giddy about it instead of afraid. Imagine racing towards that unknown bridge that we talked about so many years ago and accelerating towards the unknown instead of putting your foot on the brake. This is the attitude of faith that Spirit sees, and it tells a lot about who you are.

The DNA that you have, which is also tuned to the consciousness that you enjoy, also sees this, so does your heart, your pineal and your logical brain. They all see this too. This is the power of what we have described in the past as “pure intent” or “compassionate action”. All this works together to make it comfortable for you. This is new. In the past when you stepped out to live your faith, there wasn’t a support team like there is now. In an older energy, it wasn’t there like it is today. You hadn’t created it yet, but now you have. And again, we say this: Things are not always as they seem, and what you try again today may work well, even if it failed before.

I would like to title this particular short message “Getting Connected, Part Two”. It is an addendum to the last message that I gave yesterday. The last message was one that will be available to all of you, so you can hear it if you wish. But this message should also make sense all by itself.

A New Kind of Connection

In review, we spoke of your DNA having a multi-dimensional spin on it. What this means is that it is partly quantum [has quantum attributes that have been proven.] We’ve also told you that because of this, your DNA can generate a small “quantum event.” We also told you that this new energy being seen on this planet is changing all of humanity, not just old souls. Many are starting to awaken to new kinds of possibilities, and they are using these possibilities to do many things that may seem magical to you since they are so different.

We also told you that your Akashic Record resides in that vast memory of DNA that was recently seen in science as the storehouse of data and information previously unknown. So, formerly labeled “junk DNA” is now known to contain an amazing amount of information. Your Akash is part of this (as we told you years ago), and is going to start coming forward in ways you didn’t expect – and you’re not going to believe it.

Things will start to occur within individual humans that you will dismiss as not real, because the human that you are, and who you know and love, has only existed so far in 3D [limited dimensionality.] Even slightly quantum things will not be expected. What does humanity do, especially in the old energy, when they find someone who is fully psychic? Everyone either wants a piece of it or they want to run from it. It’s often called magic or evil. The government wants it, even though it is not fully understood. Many simply deny it and don’t know what to do with it. What if I told you that this simple example is just a peek at what is going to happen? Are you ready for it?

A super-psychic person, a person who might even be called a pre-cog [precognitive individual,] is one who can pick up on the potentials of reality that exist in the circle of time. However, this person will speak about events as though it had already happened. Potentials carry the same energy as the real thing. Sometimes the pre-cogs are put on some kind of a pedestal or whisked away to a secret kind of room. They might be correct in what they see, or not, depending on what humans do with the potentials. But, they are seen as different and often scary.

A psychic can help the police over and over. Yet, many police will shut the door and roll their eyes and say it’s not true. It’s not real to them because it’s not something they can deal with in 3D. You see what I’m saying? This is about to change. More and more, humans are going to become aware of special things that only they can do. They will have special remembrances, and they won’t know what to do with them. They may even pick up on potentials around them.

A “Wo” Example

I wish to make this simple, for that’s when the most understanding occurs. I want to introduce you to Wo. This is really not another parable like the others, but just an example. Wo is anywhere from four to six years old and he is in the new energy. Wo starts telling his parents who he used to be. He starts to tell them what it was like when he was in the family, but in a different way. He says to his mother, “You’re the best mother I’ve ever had so far.” Wo starts to recite things that are odd and strange, as this child remembers so much detail about things he shouldn’t be able to know that took place in another time.

Let me tell you why Wo is able to remember, his Akash. He is a new child in the new energy with an increased DNA efficiency. He represents the beginning of what we have called the consciousness evolution. He has a slightly different DNA because of this. You can’t measure it chemically, but you can see it in what he says and does. You may wish to call it a smarter, wiser Wo, but we will say it’s different than that. He is vibrating higher – a different consciousness that’s allowing Wo to remember things from his Earth past very quickly. He is becoming slightly multi-dimensional. However, the child has no past history as an adult in his current life; therefore, he has few social restraints. He has no box of belief yet.

Wo doesn’t know any better, so he blurts out what he sees, feels, and remembers. He is also very attentive to the reaction from his parents. His parents are everything to him. Do they believe him? Are they going to shut him down? Are they going to tell him it’s just a dream? Or, are they going to listen? How they react will determine how Wo constructs his next sentence and the others from then on about his truth.

Wo continues to tell them who he’s been, where he’s been, and what he’s done. There are no restraints to his fresh memory, and there are no rules yet of how to behave socially. He hasn’t lived a life around other people yet. He doesn’t know to be silent or they’ll think he’s odd or strange or weird. All he has is his parents and he’s looking carefully at them now. He can sense how they are taking all this. He is simply stating the truth and Wo is awakening in a very new energy as a child, but as a child he needs acceptance.

Advice For Parents who have a “Wo”

So, the first thing I want to tell you is that many of you may have a “Wo” either coming or here. What are you going to do with your children or your grandchildren who are starting to do this? I’m speaking to an expectant mother right now, but she’s not in this room. Dear one, you’re going to get this from your child! You’ve got a belief system right now that’s in a defined box. I know whom I’m talking to. I don’t want you to be afraid of it. I’m going to give you instructions that are the instructions for everyone, and here they are: When any child starts to talk about what they are remembering from their Akash, listen. No matter what you’re doing, stop and listen. If you’re late for school, I want you to stop and listen. School can wait. If you’re late for work, I want you to stop and listen. The work can wait.

The reason I’m telling you this is because these kinds of remembrances will not necessarily stay very long with your “Wo”. You may not hear it again because as the child grows up the child is going to learn about the box and about what those around him, including his peers, feel is accurate and true. He’ll talk about the angel in the room to whom he speaks, and it will be real to him. It will remain real until he tells it to a peer who is not ready to hear it. Perhaps it’s an older peer who will make fun of him for believing in the “tooth fairy” and all other fake entities. Then the child will shut up.

Peer reaction and parental attitudes are his antennas, and they are all listening for acceptance. If you brush it off or don’t accept it, he’ll be quiet about it from then on, and eventually, it will be forgotten. I want you to stop what you’re doing and listen. I want you to portray to the child that you’re interested and you believe the stories, and that you’re fascinated. Tell the child that you love what is being said. Stop and listen.

I want you to broadcast your acceptance of everything your Wo is telling you. If there’s an opportunity, I want you to ask questions. “Tell me more! This information is really great! It’s wonderful that you’re telling me these things. I love you even more for it. Please tell me more.” If the child sees this acceptance, mom and dad, I’ll tell you something: It won’t matter what his peers do because he’ll always have a friend who he can talk to about the angel in the corner, or who he remembers he used to be, or how many times he’s been alive. It’s going to happen more and more on this planet, and with free choice you, new parents, have the ability to fast-track what happens next by how you treat a child who starts to remember the “bigger picture”. This is a human becoming slightly quantum.

Will You Allow Your Akash to Bring Things Forward?

Let’s leave Wo at home with his parents now and look at another example. Your higher consciousness as an old soul may also see the angel in the corner. Perhaps it will come alive to you, and maybe you actually might be able to communicate – not to a ghost, not to an apparition – but to that which personifies the love of the Creator. This magical friend that you might have had as a child comes alive yet again!

So, let me ask you this: Will you allow it or is it too late? Are you now too invested in the box to change? When you start having remembrances and possibilities of who you really are from your Akash, what will you do? Perhaps it will be in vivid dreams that try to show you the magnificence of your purpose on Earth. Will you treat it as a dream, as a fantasy or perhaps as a weird thing? Will you forget it and close the door and not tell a soul about it? Or will you shout it out loud to those who would listen and believe and understand and celebrate it? You see, it may happen.

Old soul, you are the one to start having these dreams, these new realities. As your DNA starts to increase its efficiency and you give permission for a higher consciousness, it may begin. It won’t just happen to the children. It can’t be only them since you’re the ones with the most experience at the moment. The children will get there eventually since they’re old souls too, but you have the wisdom to understand it now.

As these things start to happen to you as an adult, no matter what age you are, old soul, there’s a tendency to suppress it. Perhaps you will instead question it and go to somebody who will listen to you and say, “I’ve had a weird thing happen.” Don’t you dare say that! It’s not weird; it’s a normal thing! The only thing weird is a human who has lived with the grand potentials of this for eons and never used it! That’s weird!

If you’re someone who can transmute time, and there’s some in here who know exactly what I’m talking about, I want you to claim it. If you’re one here or listening who has had what I will call a multi-dimensional experience, I don’t want you to tell somebody it was weird. I want you to stand up and claim that you’re moving out of this 3D box and you’re starting to realize that you are having experiences that you’ve earned! The shift is here and the old soul is starting to feel the new tools!

Some of you will have strange things happen that are only strange because they are outside of the box of your past belief. Do you have the courage to celebrate a voice in your head called intuition, which you hear for the first time? Or are you going to run to the doctor? It’s your choice. That’s the addendum that I want to put forward as another way of connecting with God. Being connected isn’t simply a realization of spiritual things. It’s becoming them! Being connected is being a part of the shift and the new energy of the planet. Gone are the days when you just sit and watch it all. Now, you are helping to create it.

That’s enough for today, and you’ve had enough teaching in this room to know what I’m talking about [speaking of a two-day seminar.]

I would love you to leave this place differently than you came. Reader, I want the same for you. Sit for a moment and ponder whether this is real for you or not. What has been said and taught this day goes beyond the box that you have lived in called “normal” all your lives. What you should know is that beyond the box is the real world. The one you have been living in is the limited world.

This awareness alone will allow those in this room (and reading) to change that need within you to intellectualize all this. Remember this: All you have to intellectualize anything is your old experiences in the box! All that you have to judge anything at this point is only what you have already experienced. Therefore, if it’s something brand new and never experienced yet, all you have are the old analysis tools to validate it. All you really have is the trust and the intuition if it is real or not. The black and white person who sees color for the first time has the tendency to question his perception, rather than enjoy the magnificence of a new, colorful world. Many will talk themselves right out of actually seeing the color and remain in black and white. The realization of this very human pitfall will help you to get past the old thinking that may have kept you from believing any of these things.

Major changes are here for you now. The next time you meditate, say this: “Dear Spirit, I’m in love with the creative source and I’m part of it. I don’t understand much of it, but being in love means I don’t have to. Dear Spirit, show me what I need to know. Give me the intuition that will guide me to places that I don’t expect, and in the process, let me have joy in my life. As I walk into what appears to be the dark, let me understand that it is really a new kind of perfect light – one I never saw before now.”

And so it is.

KRYON

Lee Carroll graduated with a business and economics degree from California Western University and started a technical audio business in San Diego that flourished for 30 years. In 1989, Lee began channeling Kryon and sharing the information with the world. He has now published over 16 metaphysical books with over a million copies in print in twenty-four languages. He also travels the world giving seminars. His website is www.kryon.com/menuKryon/menuKryon.html. To listen to this channeling, visit http://www.kryon.com/cartprodimages/2016%20downloads/download_Portland-M_16.html.

Greetings, dear ones, I am Kryon of Magnetic Service. What I would like to present this evening could be misunderstood. It is advanced information, and it is information that may create confusion, so I’ll ask my partner to go slow and use examples that I give him.

There’s something beautiful happening right now in this chair, and it’s called connection. The reason that channeling is so controversial on this planet is because there are so many who roll their eyes and say it is not possible, or occult, or just too odd. More than that, many say that it is not proper. So you may say that humanity is spiritually biased against it.

The fact is that my partner is, indeed, connected with the creative source. It’s O.K. to be connected through prayer and meditation, but quite often channeling crosses the line. Nevertheless, this is real, and my partner steps aside for this message. He literally takes that which is his consciousness and melds it with mine, allowing me to use all that’s within him for this message. But, he’s not entirely here.

Long ago, he said he would not allow a takeover when channeling, and I told him that there is no takeover in the new energy. It’s a partnership, a meld. Is there a takeover when you have wonderful, intuitive thought? Do you fly into an odd trance when you get good spiritual direction? No. Things have changed in the past decades regarding a Human’s ability to sense the direction of Spirit.

Thirty and forty years ago, trans-channels actually aged when they were in channel because they were taken over. Some of them would burn out because what they were doing was not a meld; it was work, holding a state of walking between two worlds. That was a takeover, and now it is not.

Lightworkers, healers and readers know this. When they go into a place where they are getting an intuitive stream that tells them where to touch a person to heal them best or what to say to a person when they are giving them a reading; they don’t jerk around or go into a strange, out-of-body posturing. They stay centered, become peaceful, and connect. A medical intuitive knows what to say when he or she feels the patterning of the Merkabah, and then there’s a moment of silence and perhaps a nice cleansing breath to receive the connection.

I want to talk about this connection because it may be different than you think. Things are getting more sophisticated regarding your connection to Spirit. Esoteric things are getting to the point where discernment is going to be needed at every juncture to know that your connection is pure. Inside of you, dear ones, in every piece and part of your cellular structure, there is this tiny DNA molecule that we speak about all the time. When we wrote the book The Twelve Layers of DNA, we spoke of this. Inside you, at some level that cannot be chemically measured, there is a part of the very creative source of everything. It is “God in you”, which is bigger than you think. The evidence of this is in past civilizations, for as far back as you go the ancients believed there was something bigger than themselves somehow within each of them. Many attributed it to Gaia, and they were partially correct.

They felt there was some kind of a creator somewhere, and there was all manner of belief and all manner of worship of this source. However, the thing they all had in common was that they intuitively knew they were part of something larger.

So, what I am establishing again is that inside of you within your DNA there is what we would call the spiritual component that creates intuition that there is, indeed, a creative source. This intuitive understanding is responsible for the creation of all the belief systems on the planet. Think about it: Humanity doesn’t have any trouble with believing in God. Those who don’t believe in God are a tiny minority. Most of the planet knows about the one God. So this is something intrinsic and intuitive to humanity in general, and it happens inside each of you. Dear ones, this intuition is starting to grow and change.

The “God within” idea is starting to become more elegant in certain ways, and more misunderstood in others. What I mean by this is that this earth of yours and this humanity of yours is starting to shift, and it’s affecting not just Lightworkers, not just old souls, but all of humanity. With the changing of the magnetic grid of this planet, and with the fact that your solar system is literally moving into a new place around the galaxy, a new area, it is filled with energies you never saw before. It changes everything. It changes the heliosphere of your sun and, therefore, it affects your magnetic grid. Some are looking at this and see some new radiations that they are actually afraid of. Seen any differences in the behavior of your sun recently? It may not be holding to the exact radiance patterns that it has in the past. All of these things represent a confluence of energy that is going to change humanity. It’s going to influence the way you think and the way you feel. It’s going to expand ideas and perceptions, and also affect the spiritual biases that humanity has carried for eons.

Now, the old souls, the ones who have been there and done that for lifetimes (the experienced ones), are the ones who understand why this is happening. You are the ones who will be the future teachers as those around you come to you at work and play, or in a family, and ask you about how you are able to remain peaceful or joyful. You are the ones! It’s why you’re listening to this channel. It’s a task that won’t be difficult if you are out of fear, but I want you to understand the connection because there’s going to be what we will call some puzzles.

Dear ones, part of your DNA is multidimensional. This isn’t really that controversial. My partner has reported facts regarding some quantum biologists who know about this and who continue to study it. Indeed, part of DNA is more than you think. It’s been shown and proven in experiments that DNA is not just chemistry. There is positive evidence that shows the very presence of DNA in a controlled experiment will change the spin of an atomic particle within a quantum field. That tells the scientists that there is a cause and effect action that’s quantum, and that DNA must, therefore, be a small quantum source.

The last time we were together, I gave you information in a channel that said, “You cannot see quantum action without having a quantum source.” So if you are going to have a beautiful, new quantum invention, it must be developed from a quantum source. You cannot have a 3D source create a quantum effect. Now, what that boils down to in summary today is that your DNA has a quantum attribute, so it qualifies as a “source” for quantum changes. Your consciousness is part of your DNA. Human consciousness is starting to grow up, and you’re going to start doing things with your consciousness that will startle others. The first is the ability to youth and to cure disease, mostly within your own bodies.

So the increase in wisdom starts with you first, and then it extrapolates to others as time goes by. But, dear ones, it starts with you. Now, I just told you something earlier. I said, “This shift is for everyone.” I’m also going to mention that these changes are slow and may not be immediately obvious. But when you start having better intuition and start using better solutions to everyday issues, people will come up to you and ask how you figured it out, and you’ll have no answer. It’s new intuition, and it starts mostly within old souls.

I want to use an example, and it’s a metaphor. This example is going to be about one of your favorite mammals – a whale. Whales navigate to their breeding spots and their feeding grounds with magnetics. In the whale’s system, there’s something called magnetite.* It interfaces with their consciousness and their brains to become an intuitive direction finder. They’ve got an internal compass, but whales don’t know that. They just go with their intuition.

To prove this to you, I take you back 20 years. You might remember that many whales were beaching themselves on a regular basis, even some of them on this very coast [East Coast of USA], and it was a concern to many. The odd thing about it was that they would resist being saved. A whale would beach itself and then be pulled by the tail back into the open ocean. The release would create cheers all around from those in boats, only to have the whale re-beach itself! What was going on, dear ones? We told you. The magnetic grid had shifted, as we predicted back then, so “north” was now slightly different than before. The automatic “compass heading” that the whales had used for generations was now taking them directly into certain beaches instead of providing an open sea journey. They were simply following the same magnetic lines of influence that they had always followed for generations. This also shows you just how much the magnetics moved in those years. It took a full generation or more for whales to understand that a new path was needed and go around. Today, they’re not beaching themselves like they did then. Now why am I telling you this?

Let’s pretend for a moment that the whale had a little more intellect than you think, and that you might be able to interview it to find out what the whale thinks about and what might be going on in its mind. So let’s interview Mr. Whale:

“What is it, Mr. Whale, that allows you to navigate to these feeding and breeding grounds all over the planet? You seem to know where you’re going?”

And the whale might answer, “I have no idea, little one; I just do it.”

Dear ones, if somebody asked how you know there is a God, what do you say? “I just know,” you might say. It’s the same. It is intrinsic and instinctual. It’s in your consciousness that the creator is inside you. For you to understand this more, I have to tell you that there is literally a part of the creator in you. It’s not a remembrance, or just a metaphoric silver cord, that connects you. No, it’s physical and quantumly in your DNA.

That’s why you feel so much like home when you connect. When you come to a place, dear ones, where you feel connected and the balance of the triad is working (heart, pineal and brain), you are awakening to this part of your DNA and you suspend everything. You don’t even age! You know the connection is real, and that’s the time when you might sit and weep with joy that you have such a connection with everything. It’s everything that you are. You are a part of creation and you know it. You know it and you discern it, and there are many who can go to this sacred place and feel this joy, especially in this new energy.

But here’s what I want to tell you: Because of this new energy, others are feeling part of this connection and are starting to use it, but it has nothing to do with the spiritual creative source. Confused? I’m going to ask you a question, a rhetorical question, and you can answer it in your mind: “Is a person who bends spoons spiritual?” Now think for a moment. They have had to go and get the multidimensional part of quantum DNA and pull it up into their consciousness to use it and change physics. Listen: They do it and it’s real. So their consciousness is working at a very high level to affect the metal in the spoon. Over and over they can do this and people will look at them, and some will actually worship them because they have “something special”.

Here is what I want to tell you: You can do all of that and not be spiritual. You can do all of that and not even be spiritually connected. Let’s get a little more personal. Let’s say there is a master healer on the planet who can start manifesting things [create objects] and who can heal many people. This is a metaphor. I’m not talking about a real person. I’m giving you a metaphor and I want you to stop and ask yourself, “Is the person connected?” And you would say, “YES! They must be connected! Look what they’re doing! This must come from God.” Dear ones let me tell you where it comes from. It comes from a new Human consciousness, which is starting to become more elegant and have a higher efficiency. It’s a consciousness that is starting to use that multidimensional quantum part within, which can change physics and can see patterns and help people, yet they may not be connected.

This is more about discernment than it ever has been before. Back to the whale story – suddenly there may be a shift, let’s say, and our whale starts to become more intellectual. The whale says, “Look, I’ve got something inside that is almost like a compass, but instead of it being automatic and hidden, now it’s controllable. I can go east or west or northwest or northeast for a while, just to see what’s there. My internal compass allows me to go anywhere to explore, then I can return to the breeding course.”

Whales never do that. They go on a track that has to do with their survival. That’s what they do, and that’s why you can always find them in the same places. They have a compass that’s automatic, but let’s say some of them decided that they could do something else. Does it make the whale really any different? Does exploring the new gift that is inbred in them make them enlightened?

Dear ones, what is inside you is a multidimensional piece of DNA that’s meant to be connected to the central source. To be truly connected means to have a balance of the triad. We bring you this information yet again: The complete Human Being, the one who is totally connected, can do all of the things that I’ve mentioned above, but “the greatest of these is love”. This love and compassion is the meld between the logical brain, the Human heart and the pineal. In a balanced way, the pineal is that which sends and receives the sacred energy and has assistance from the quantum DNA to connect to the creative source. Listen, if you wipe out the pineal and never use it and you suppress the heart, you’re all cerebral. But, you can still use that which is the multidimensional DNA! In this new energy, there will be many who are going to come forward and appear to do things that are beyond what others can do. They will do it within the guise of spirituality, yet they are NOT connected. These are part of the problems and puzzles that we told you would start to occur in the new energy of humanity. It isn’t misuse, dear ones, for it may not even be on purpose. It’s simply ignorance that they don’t know they’re not connected.

Let me tell you something, old soul: Almost everyone in this room is connected in some way. Through lifetime after lifetime, like the whale, you have the compass, and now you have learned to go any direction you want to. You learn to use the connection to enhance your life. You can talk to your cells and manifest different reality. But, if you are not connected to love, you are just doing things better for yourself.

The healer who is really connected will have an exponential increase in the healing power they had before, not just something more efficient. Someone just doing games and bending metal is just doing games and bending metal. They may also be connected, but how would you know? “But the greatest of these is love.” Dear ones, any connected person will show their benevolence, their joy, and their love and compassion for others. Beware of the frustrated, angry healer. Beware of the frustrated, angry spoon bender. If they are angry, unbalanced, ego-driven and upset, they’re not connected. It’s not that hard to tell, dear ones, but you’re going to see more of this.

Those who say they’re channeling, yet there’s drama around them, may not be channeling anything but themselves. Those who say they are channeling, yet they’re frustrated and angry, may only be channeling themselves. You can feel it in their voice or what they tell you: Are they demanding when they channel, or do they demean you? Do they tell you to do things you don’t want to do or use the “fear tool” to frighten you? If that’s the case, they are not connected to the beautiful, compassionate, creative source.

It is not that difficult to discern who is balanced or not, and this is the key. Do they listen to you? Do they show love in their lives? There’s going to be more of those you must discern. Look for the real benevolence, the “behind the scenes” benevolence, not what they show you publicly. Look for them living a life based in love and kindness. It’s not that hard to see, and that’s what the triad produces.

Old souls listening to this and in this room, listen. There has never been a better time for you to connect. If you are featuring fear and frustration at this moment, I wonder if you’ve really figured it out? You’re thinking too much, you’re brain-heavy in this process, and we’ve said this before. Indeed, the brain must be involved in the triad. Your brain is a survival instrument and is needed. You also must involve the heart and pineal equally to the brain. Survival is running from the Bengal tiger. Survival is reacting to fear, but this new energy is reacting to love.

That, as you walk this planet, is the new survival. It is presenting your mastery for all to see. Everywhere you walk, Gaia knows a master is walking there. You may say, “I’m not a master, not really.” Where are you getting this information? Who told you that? Are you echoing something you learned from someone else? Perhaps your parents or teachers told you that you were “less than?” Perhaps you think it’s boastful or egotistical for you to carry the love of God? It isn’t! I want you to stand taller knowing that you deserve to be connected. You can leave this place and understand that your consciousness can change all things in your life, even the healing that you want. You are in control of more than you ever were before.

Don’t let situations define you anymore. Let the love of God define you. Let the part that is multidimensional and connected to the triad define you. When old energy presents itself, as it often will, don’t let it define you. You can shatter the old energy with a look of love, do you hear me? You can shatter old energy with benevolence and a pure heart. Old energy will run from you, and it doesn’t want to have you around.

Old energy cannot spin in drama with you there, did you know that? It can’t. Friends or others that you know who spin in old energy will walk the other way when you come near because they know you will not be part of their spin. They know it! There’s a clash, more than ever, between the old energy and the new energy Humans. That’s what’s happening on the planet right now. You cannot have a barbaric energy when the light is starting to be turned on. We have told you before that the old energy on this planet is in trouble. It’s going to run the other the way and yell and scream. The old energy does not want to die, yet its death is eminent with the passing of the precession of the equinoxes. All the new calendars and the ancient prophecies are describing this shift.

Systems, which have no integrity, are eventually going to fall on their faces because of this. These old systems will create issues of change, until there will come a time where it has settled out and the old soul will be there for all of it. Dear ones, you’re the front line for all of it and all you have to do is remember, “The greatest of these is love.”

There is no frustration when you accept the love of God. There is no sacrifice when you accept the love of God. It took four years to convince my partner when he started sitting in the chair that it was O.K. to channel. Everything that he offered up as an objection was the bias that he had learned in the few years that he had lived on the planet. It was “what others told him” and not his own discernment. When he finally dropped those objections and let God in, everything changed. He will tell you, everything changed.

I invite all of you within the sound of this voice or reading this to let everything change. Recognize the biases for what they are. What others told you this may be real or not? Is that going to be your reality? Are you really going to take someone else’s word and let it shut the door on God in your life? That isn’t even logical. Things are shifting and changing. Just ask the whales! That wasn’t a metaphor.

Lee Carroll – After graduating with a business and economics degree from California Western University, Lee started a technical audio business in San Diego that flourished for 30 years. In 1989, Lee began channeling Kryon and sharing the information with the world. He has now published over 16 metaphysical books with over a million copies in print in twenty-four languages. He also travels the world giving seminars. His website is: www.kryon.com/menuKryon/menuKryon.html.

Sitting backstage at a network television studio in a large metropolitan city, I waited to go on the air for an interview. My segment was scheduled right after the noon news broadcast, which began with a gory account of a murder, then a rape, then war footage, followed by bad economic news, and a political scandal. I began to feel depressed, but consoled myself that the broadcast would get to more positive reports. It didn’t. The entire 15 minutes was filled with gloom and doom, nothing anyone in his right mind would want to get up in the morning and face. Eventually I just had to laugh. The news was beyond depressing. It was ridiculous. It was unbelievable. Finally, after the closing sortie of auto accidents and snarled traffic, the broadcaster announced, “. . .and now for a great new book by an author who is going to tell you how to live a happy life.”

The camera turned to me.

Suddenly I became Neo in the movie The Matrix, in which wizard Morpheus extends two open hands, a red pill in one palm and a blue pill in the other. If Neo ingests the red pill, he will awaken to his true self and the real world. If he takes the blue pill, he will remain in a familiar but oppressive world of illusions.

I sat up straight and reached for the red pill. I told the audience that love is our birthright, and to fear the imposter. I took a stand for living authentically in a world consumed by illusions. I told the viewers that they deserved better than the world showed them, and they held power over their lives regardless of the insanity around them. It was the only news I knew how to broadcast.

After the program, the anchor, a highly respected lifetime journalist, took me aside and told me, “I agree with you completely. I get depressed coming to this job. There has to be more to life than the world we are telling people there is.”

The reality we have been shown by the media and other seemingly authoritative institutions has been twisted into the polar opposite of truth, championed by people more committed to bondage than freedom. You have likely told someone about a valued vision of yours, to which he or she responded, “Get real!” Suddenly your excitement was reduced to ashes and you either gave up your quest, or you had to once again build up the courage and momentum to forge ahead. Take care to share your sacred visions with people who will empower you, not attempt to gobble your hopes in the shredder of doubt. If you even have one or two good friends who understand you and believe in you, that is sufficient. If it seems that no one understands or supports you, Higher Power has your back. Even when you do not have faith in yourself, God has faith in you.

When most people say, “Get real,” they mean, “Get small. Get limited. Get stuck. I am trapped in my little fear-bound world, and your expansive vision is threatening to me. So I demand that you grovel in the mud with me. How dare you rock my tiny world with greater possibilities!” The premise is that success and happiness are unattainable illusions, while struggle and suffering are realities we must adjust to and live with.

Most planetary game-changers were told, “Get real.” They were branded insane, shamed, imprisoned, tortured, and killed. The Catholic Church sentenced Galileo to house arrest for suggesting that the earth revolved around the sun. Soon afterward Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno proposed that the sun was a star, and that the universe contained an infinite number of inhabited worlds populated by other intelligent beings. Giordano was convicted of heresy and burned at the stake. When the judges issued his death decree he told them, “Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.”

Jonathan Swift later noted, “When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.” Einstein echoed, “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.” Every person is potentially great. Are you willing to step into your greatness, claim it, and live it?

The holiday season offers you many opportunities to get real in the presence of people who fear to get real themselves, and call you to play small with them. Regard their resistance as a call for love, and an invitation for you to be authentic. When you stand for truth in the presence of illusion, you break the illusion for yourself and for everyone who subscribes to it. Your mission is to remain alive in a world preoccupied with death; to walk tall when others are compromising their integrity; to be who you are while others have forgotten who they are.

Reality is not for sissies. To live authentically in a world steeped in illusion is the gift of a lifetime, spreading light in ripples from your own life to the lives of everyone you touch.

Alan Cohen is the author of many inspirational books, including “I Had it All the Time: When Self-Improvement Gives Way to Ecstasy.” For more information about this program, Hawaiian retreats, Alan’s books, free daily inspirational quotes, or his weekly radio show, visit: alancohen.com.

As we enter into the New Year, we spend quite of bit of energy thinking of goals we want to set, new directions we want to go in, or new adventures we want to embark on. The resolutions have a nasty habit of moving to the back burner soon after setting them, as we get swept back into the current of life. This year, make a resolution that will have a greater influence on your overall well-being by reconnecting with the natural world. Just getting outside, breathing air that flows between trees, and not buildings, can have a profound effect on our entire mind, body and spirit. Especially in a world where we spend more time connecting to electronics, and less time connecting with time, connecting to each other, and connecting with our inner selves. According to the World Wildlife Federation, spending time outdoors in nature can increase fitness levels, and therefore decrease your risk for certain diseases. There is also evidence that being outdoors can improve your distance vision, reduce the symptoms of ADHD, depression, and anxiety! Wow, stepping outside is so much easier than going to the gym. This might just be the resolution you keep. Here are some other ways you can experience the benefits of connecting with nature this year:

Incorporate green friends into your home décor – So even if you don’t spend much time outside, you can still connect with nature by bringing the outdoors in. Many studies show that having houseplants can improve your air quality and reduce stress. Start with low maintenance varieties like an indoor evergreen, potted ivy or philodendron. Ask your local greenhouse for suggestions. Take the time to connect with your new housemates by paying a little closer attention to their cycles and rhythms for watering, for example.

30 minutes a day – I don’t mean exercise…. Just 30 minutes of sunlight a day can have tremendous health benefits, including boosting metabolism, decreasing depression, improving sleep, and it has even been shown to have a positive effect on the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease. The sun is at the core of our cycles, seasons, our food, our existence. Connect with it as you bask in it. Just turn your face toward the sun, eyes closed of course, and soak in the goodness.

Get a little dirty – Ok, not that kind of dirty, I’m talking hands in the dirt, mud-pie dirty. The National Institutes for Health and other organizations agree that getting dirty is good for you. Children who have the chance to get a little dirty have more effective immune systems. Other studies have shown that getting your hands in the dirt can also expose your body to the good kinds of bacteria, and can boost your mental health. I wonder if that means I don’t have to work so hard at keeping my house clean?

Go ahead, hug a tree – Yes, it might sound cliché yet maybe the hippies were right about something. In our culture, we tend to engage in a deeper relationship with our electronics than other humans. This lack of connection impacts us in all areas of our lives and makes it harder to connect with others, let alone have a functional relationship with another person. Yes, let’s face it, Siri doesn’t argue. If we can settle our mind, and physically connect through touch with another living creature, we begin to open ourselves up. Physical touch can be such a transformative and powerful experience. Take the time to mindfully notice what you feel and smell; use all of your senses to create that connection. So start with something easy like a tree. It won’t argue either, and it just feels good to give them a big hug.

Forget conscious uncoupling, try conscious connecting – Have you ever walked into a park or wooded area and felt how the energy changed? Sometimes more undisturbed natural areas have a bit of a different feel to them, like they have their own personality. In the practice of ecopsychology, there is a lot of discussion about how we connect consciously to the world around us. It’s almost like creating a conscious relationship with nature. In the start of any relationship, we might introduce ourselves. So take that same idea and apply it when you enter into a relationship with nature. This can be as simple as asking permission to connect, and waiting to see if you get a response. Try it when you take a walk in a park or go hiking. As you spend time in the space, try to consciously connect with specific things in the space that draw your attention, like a bird or a creek. See if it doesn’t intensify the well-being you feel while you are in the space. Oh, don’t forget to be polite and say thank you when you leave.

Take a deep breath – Those yogis were right when they said that life is breath, and breath is life. Next time you step outside take a deep breath and notice the quality of air in different spaces. Compare your breathing when you are in a more populated area, versus the way you breathe when surrounded by the natural world. When we are in an open area with more undisturbed terrain, you tend to feel bigger, more open, and the breath reflects that. Our body recognizes the clean air and pulls it deep into the lungs. Atoms in the air do not die to disperse. As one being takes the atoms of the air in and exhales them, another being takes them in and exhales. So when you take a breath in, notice that this is the same air that a tree took in, cleaned, and put back out. It is the same air taken in by a person from the past, it nourished their body, and now it nourishes yours. It’s a bit of a mind trip of a concept, yet it drives home the feeling of being connected on a much deeper level.

Man’s connection with nature is at the core of the decisions we make in our daily life and how we approach the world. When we truly realize that connectedness we might look upon our fellow man with more compassion, and we might also think differently about how we treat the earth we live on. A deeper connection might invoke more feelings of gratitude for the earth that sustains us. We don’t have to resolve to change the world; just resolve to take a few minutes each day to connect to it. If we took that time, who knows, collectively we might just change the world.

Blair McKissock, MSEd, RYT is a speaker and author on experiential and nature-based learning. Learn more about coaching, OmHorse Yoga as well as upcoming equine assisted workshops at stridestosuccess.org.

I had a neighbor I saw as a nasty alcoholic. Brenda would regularly sit around the kitchen table with her husband, drink, and complain. I did not find any good in her. Then she and her husband took in a young man to live with them. Mark helped the older couple around the house and stayed with them for years. When Brenda passed away several years later, Mark told me, “Brenda was one of the kindest people I have ever known. She and her husband treated me like a son. I will always remember and love her.” In that moment I realized how skewed was my interpretation of Brenda. I was focusing on one aspect of her that brought me pain to consider. Mark, on the other hand, had focused on an aspect of Brenda that brought him joy. Each of us was reaping the result of our interpretation. From that moment on I began to think of Brenda as a kind person, which has brought me peace.

“A Course in Miracles”tells us that perception is not a fact, but an interpretation. The world we see is determined by the kind of vision we use to observe it. When we view the world as unsafe and threatening, populated by ignorant, evil people, we will find plenty of evidence to prove our assumption. All belief systems are self-validating. If, on the other hand, we view the world as a place of kindness, filled with people willing and able to make life easier for each other, that is the world we will experience. An infinite variety of realities exist simultaneously. The one we live in is the one we focus on.

If the reality you are currently living in is not bringing you joy, abundance, connection and healing; pray to be wrong about the judgments that form the platform of your beliefs. You cannot simultaneously be right about your limits and your possibilities. For one to proliferate, you must release the other. Jesus said, “A man cannot serve two masters. He will hate one and love the other.” You can live in but one belief system at a time. Jesus also said, “Choose ye this day whom you will serve.” Ultimately there are only two belief systems: love and fear. You are either serving love or serving fear. Nothing in between.

Last summer a crazed gunman killed the parents and four siblings of fifteen-year-old Cassidy Stay, and, after shooting her, left her for dead. Miraculously she survived. At her family’s funeral service she quoted Harry Potter’s mentor Dumbledore: “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” This young woman made an extraordinary choice about how she would process such a horrendous ordeal. She chose love. On the day I read the news article about her eulogy I was upset about a credit card bill. Suddenly my upset felt absolutely trivial. I realized that if Cassidy could choose love in the face of such a terrible experience, I could choose love over far lesser challenges. “Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling heard about Cassidy’s oration and sent her a personal handwritten letter in purple ink from Dumbledore, a wand, and several autographed books. While these gifts could not undo the tragedy the young woman underwent, they demonstrate our power to soften each other’s pain. “What are we here for but to make life easier for one another?”

This holiday season you will have plenty of opportunities to pray to be wrong about what’s wrong and to be right about what’s working or what could work. You will have many chances to make life easier for yourself and others. You may experience the stress and pressure of shopping for holiday gifts; crowded travel during high season; family upsets, feuds, and dramas; financial fears; and handling end-of-year details. The season of joy, for many people, is not so joyful. This would be a fabulous time to remember that perception is not a fact, but an interpretation. When faced with fear, anger, or guilt in yourself or another, ask yourself, “Is there another way to look at this that would bring me more ease, relief, or peace?” If there is, pray to be wrong about the way you have been looking at the event so you can see it from a new, more healing perspective. “A Course in Miracles” asks us, “Would you rather be right or happy?”

The approach of the New Year brings a powerful invitation to let go of the limits that have kept us feeling small during the past year, and replace them with greater possibilities for the new year. Pray to be wrong about everything that hasn’t worked in your life, so you can be right about everything that could work, and will. Bless the old year for leading you to the new one, for both the challenges and blessings have lifted you to higher ground. As you consider what hasn’t made you happy, heed the profound advice of Kahlil Gibran: “Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

A happy and blessed holiday season and New Year to you and yours.

Alan Cohen is the author of many inspirational books, including “I Had it All the Time: When Self-Improvement Gives Way to Ecstasy.” For more information about Alan’s books, free daily inspirational quotes and his weekly radio show, visit www.alancohen.com.

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By Chris Alexandria

According to the angelic realm, 2018 promises to be The Year of Abundance! Woohoo, you say! Me too. However, it is up to us what kind of abundance that is attracted. Think about it, you can have an abundant pile of cash, joy, health, love … you know all those yummy things of which daydreams are made.

Or… you can have an abundance of indecision, fear, busy-ness vs. being-ness, and the stuff that keeps you up at nights.

Which do you prefer?

Hopefully, the former. It is not a new paradigm or revelation that thoughts do create realities, but did you also know that questions asked can play just an important role? True. Think about it, how many times in the midst of being very frustrated, annoyed or worried you metaphorically (or literally) shout out your frustrations to the universe?

Questions such as:

Why do things like this always happen to me?! Why can’t I ever make ends meet? Why do I date such losers?

And so on.

Funny how the Law of the Universe works. It answers every question you ask literally. It never interprets! Sad, but true. Using the above questions as an example; those ‘things’ continue to happen, ends actually get further and further apart and those losers? They keep waltzing up to the door. They may change their clothing, but it’s the same kind of loser.

In the vein of using affirmations and mantras to better any situation in your life can be very helpful. Funny thing about those though; affirmations don’t always work. In fact, they won’t work at all if there is a morsel within that doesn’t believe what you are affirming. For example, have you ever purchased a lottery ticket and thus proclaimed you now held the winning ticket in your hands? Me too.

Have you won yet?

Me either.

This is how powerful you are though. IF you truly believed you had the winning ticket in hand, it would be akin to that scene in the movie “Bruce Almighty”when Bruce, a.k.a. God for the moment, grants everyone’s wish. They won mere pennies and the lottery went broke.

Think about that. You ARE that powerful. Let that thought sink in.

You ARE that powerful.

Keep in mind an affirmation is a statement, a statement in which the ego eagerly jumps in to argue and blow raspberries at you. It often throws phrases at you such as:

Who do you think you are in wanting that? Being a bit greedy, aren’t you? You want better? Get used to it, this is life, and it’s not getting any better; suck it up.

The ego is a nasty spoiled child and very often gets its way by keeping you in your place and somewhat stuck.

Now hold on, there is a way to keep the ego stuck in a corner with the proverbial lollypop. Ask a question! The ego simply isn’t equipped to answer questions. You’ve already been reminded of those not so nice questions asked in frustration, so don’t ask any more of those please, instead use an Askfirmation. An Askfirmation is a positive present-tense question that you pose to the universe, just like those that you say in frustration. No need to find the answer! The universe will work in the same magical way and answer for you.

Let’s start with the beginning. You. Are you living life to the fullest? Are you jumping out of bed each and every morning giddy with excitement about what the day may hold? If not then there are aspects of you that are still hiding for a variety of reasons, but at the very core of it, all will be your unease to share your brilliance with the world at large. In other words, not feeling safe to share your brilliance in its entirety. I was no different until a few years ago. I hid my angel intuitive talents well. So well, in fact, I developed a nervous twitch. However, when I began to use the Askfirmation, Why is it safe for me to be me? The twitching stopped, I have literally grown one inch in height and the best part? I can now look folks in the eyes and tell them with great joy and love what I do and why:

Remember do not look for the answers. Allow the universe andangels to answer and show you. Magic begins to happen. Based on my experience and the experience of clients and customers of the book alike, the path before you becomes clearer. You gain a deeper insight into you; your mission, your glorious journey. And, the best part? You begin to be excited about you again AND feel comfortable to share it.

Will you grow in physical height? Perhaps. Can’t guarantee it, but others have. Will you win the lottery? If it’s in your highest interests, you will. Will you live the life of your dreams? Yes by asking and using Askfirmations regularly.

I’ll be asking this one Askfirmation, why is it safe for me to be me? daily until the day I skip on over to the other side. Why? As humans, we continually evolve and that means more aspects of us wish to shine. As each occasion arises, it can be scary to proclaim our truth and walk taller. It’s part of being human. However, every time I ask, why is it safe for me to be me? I feel my spine elongate and grow stronger.

Folks have mentioned it. Friends, family members, even total strangers have inquired how I’ve gotten to be so tall. (I’m now 5’9” by the way.) We have begun to find great humor in this constant confirmation that I AM walking my truth more openly than ever before.

As another lovely effect of just asking this very question, you will begin to feel empowered to ask for what you truly desire andbegin to allow yourself to receive it all. That is my wish for you for 2018, the Year of Abundance. For you to be abundant in self – embracing every juicy morsel of you and shining like you have never shined before.

Wishing you a joyous and abundant 2018!

Chris Alexandria is your Transformational Coach with Angelic Insights. She is the co-creator of Angel Chatter and can be found at AngelChatter.com as well as various social media outlets, including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Abundance. It’s a word filled with optimism and hope. But what does it truly mean to you?

Abundance can come to you in many different forms in all areas of life. Do you long for more time? More money? Deeper connections and relationships? Your desires have been given uniquely to you for a reason. Whatever it is you are longing for in this moment is within reach, but first you need to know how to create the space to receive it. Get ready to design the life you deserve with the ancient practice of feng shui!

One of the first steps when trying to implement feng shui in your home or office is to start with the front entrance. This article explains how to welcome new opportunities and positive energy into all areas of life simply by enhancing your front door!

Why is the front door so important?

The front door is considered the “mouth of chi.” Chi (also spelled qi), is the natural life force, or energy, that is within everything. Every time you open your front door, fresh chi flows in and replenishes your whole house.

Allowing sunshine and fresh air through your front door naturally elevates the chi of your home. This is why it is so important to use the front door entrance everyday. If you do not use your front door, at the very least make an effort to at open it daily so that the natural light can flow through it.

Whether you live in a house or an apartment, the front door of your home is so important when it comes to applying feng shui principles. The front door has two major functions. It protects your house and it welcomes in abundance!

How do you feng shui the front door?

In addition to using your front door daily, here are five suggestions that will help you elevate the chi of your home. These basic front door feng shui suggestions will protect your home and help you attract abundance.

Make a “Yang” Door: When it comes to your front door, think bright! You want all the positive energy to “find” your house. You can attract positive chi by painting the door a different color from the rest of the house so that it stands out. This is highly recommended if there are multiple entrances to your home.

Create a Solid Door: A solid door is considered ideal in feng shui because it protects the house from any negative outside chi which could be caused from busy roads, arguing neighbors, construction, power lines, or other outside factors that are beyond your control. If your door has a large glass window, you can create protection by hanging a colorful wreath. You can also try placing brightly colored flowers on either side of the door. Red flowers are idea. Red is a power color with vibrant energy that will provide protection as well as attract more prosperity into your home.

Place a Solid Doormat Outside the Door: The doormat is believed to welcome helpful people and opportunities to your doorstep. There are three things to keep in mind when selecting your doormat:

A solid doormat is best because it is the most energetically stable.

The mat should not be wider than the front door. A mat that is too wide will actually bring you too many opportunities, making it difficult to prioritize and handle the workload.

Avoid doormats that have your last name or monogram on them. You don’t want people “walking all over you.”

If you live in an apartment and cannot place a doormat in front of your doorstep, have no fear. In feng shui, there is always a solution! You can make an energetic doormat. Take a red pen (leave the cap on!), and “draw” a doormat in front of your door. For an added energetic bonus, “write” affirmations on the doormat of all that you wish to attract into your life.

Have Your Address Clearly Labeled: You might know where you live, but visitors and FedEx don’t always know. Make your address visible so that nothing passes you by, both literally and symbolically.

Place a Metal Wind Chime Outside: A metal wind chime outside the front entrance is a feng shui must-have! The wind chime is believed to circulate the positive energy that flows to your house and magnifies the positive effects each time you open the front door.

Carla Baldacci painted her front door Valspar “La Fonda” so that it stands out. The doormat, colorful flowers and address label complete the look, welcoming abundance to her home.

Are you ready to attract abundance?

Applying feng shui to your front door will be a breath of fresh air for you and your home! You will start to see things from a new perspective, which will give you greater clarity in all areas of life. You will see new opportunities that you did not realize existed, and helpful people will show up as if out of thin air. Everyone’s feng shui journey is different, but if you try some of these front door feng shui suggestions, you will experience a shift. Your home will smile, and so will your heart!

Kristina Hollinger is the author of Teaching from the Heart with Feng Shui: Inspired Living for Teachers, Parents and Kids. She is a school administrator and feng shui consultant who is passionate about helping others design the life they deserve. www.KristinaHollinger.com

Ever since I can remember I have had these dreams that have helped to guide me. When I was young, I awoke from one of these deep dreams saddened with the knowledge that I was going to die sometime in my early forties. I made a conscience choice in that very moment to live the life I truly desired and promised myself to always make the best of all I was given. Grateful for each and every day I was living life to its fullest, thankful for the message.

With a blink of an eye forty was upon me. I began to become unsettled knowing something was coming, but didn’t know what. That is when the diagnosis came in and the beginning of the end was upon me. Now I was thrown into a whirlwind of fighting for my life, I just couldn’t let go. I was fighting with all I had. It didn’t feel right all these years I was content in the knowing I would die young with no regrets, but now I found myself clinging to my life that I so desperately wanted to keep. The fight was exhausting, but I was strong and determined to survive. This carried on for months … procedures, surgery after surgery until my dream came to pass, and I was called home into God’s Arms.

I felt an all-encompassing feeling of warmth, serenity and unconditional love. I was so full of joy and contentment and happy to be home. All was right with my soul, I was right where I was supposed to be. The resistance was gone; I was in peace. But, God had another plan for me that I was not aware of, I was to go back, I still had work to do and it wasn’t my time yet. Reluctant to return because of the immense feelings of pure bliss I was experiencing I did so because of my loved ones that I did not want to leave behind and with an understanding that I had a purpose to fulfill. I knew I was going to die, but I didn’t know it wasn’t the end of my life, but the start of a whole new life with a divine purpose.

You would assume it would be smooth sailing from this point forward but there were more lessons yet to come. I survived the cancer, but endured physical trauma along the way. My rib cage was dislocated and that went undiagnosed for almost two years. Ultimately causing extensive internal damage. No one, and I mean no one, should have to experience the pain and suffering that I had to go through because of this unforeseen twist of fate. The nights were always the hardest for me in those dark moments when I laid my suffering body down; there was just the cold hard truth and me. Why is this happening to me? I was a fiercely strong independent woman who never had any boundaries or limitation and was thrust back into a new existence filled with limitations, extreme pain and faced with uncertainty. Why did I have to come back? What was the purpose of coming back fragile, suffering and physically dependent on others? These were the thoughts that haunted me during those dark nights. I learned not to give into the desperation, but to hold onto the fact that this was not to be my fate but just a part of my story. I never gave up hope that I would be healed and learned how powerful my thoughts are.

During these years of recovery I became very hypersensitive and my awareness was skyrocketing. My intuition was now navigating my every move. It was in that space of seeking and learning was when I began to see the light and knew the current state of my body was only temporary and just a snapshot in time. The path I was on was all part of my evolution and preparing me for who I was to become.

With the will to survive and a team of eastern and western doctors, I continue to progress in my efforts to sustain a quality of life focusing on all the amazing gifts I have been blessed with along the way. As I have come to understand, I was in the dark night of the soul phase, and I was either going to survive this and thrive or die. The choice was ultimately mine to make.

We are all victims of circumstance and can at times feel as if we are spinning out of control because of all the unfortunate events that can happen in our lives. But I’m here to tell you that it is not the events you are to focus on, but your sheer will to adapt, overcome and improve is key to all of life’s challenges. Never give up! Believe in your heart that you’re meant to live a life full of passion, purpose, magic and miracles and you will.

Krissy Winchester is a contributing writer for “Conscious Community Magazine.”

I loved the Flintstones (and yes I am THAT OLD.) I enjoyed the ‘60s vibe of the backgrounds, the cheesy caveman theme and especially the celebrity guest star appearances (remember Ann Margrock and Cary Granite?) When I’m doing readings, my guides send me pictures to help communicate messages to the client. It helps me when they send the same image or metaphor over and over to communicate the same advice to different people that need it. It’s like a special dictionary of symbols and meanings that are unique to my guides and me. Sometimes they are hilarious even if the topic is somber. Trust me … Spirit has a sense of humor!

Yesterday in one of my readings, I was working with a repeat client who has been disentangling herself from someone who has Sociopathic Personality Disorder. The message was clear; she needed the encouragement to keep moving and I was given a fun, creative vision to help explain it to her that I would like to share.

When “they” (my guides) showed me Fred Flintstone in that awesome car of his with his feet running furiously to make the vehicle go, I know exactly what is going on with my client. It’s about the ways we get stuck in life and what we need to do to keep moving forward. Confused? OK, let me take this actually very sophisticated existential metaphor á la Hanna-Barbera and break it down for you. Firstly, the symbol of a car in dreams, art or visions generally equates to your life. You are in the operator’s seat of your life, making choices that direct it, or “drive” it.

Looking through the Floorboard

All of us at some point get stuck in the minutiae of the problems that we are facing right now. Some personality types get very intense about studying and analyzing every nuance of a situation to feel more in control and quell fear. Others ruminate and worry in a mental or emotional “loop” that repeats over and over. This is the equivalent of looking through the floorboard of your car and studying the ground that your car is stopped over, or even worse, the ground that your car is currently driving over. (Wreck potential anyone?)

Rear View Mirrors

Are you reminiscing about the past? Angry about something that happened in the past? Obsessing or paranoid over who may be following you, or what’s going on with someone with whom you were previously entangled? Focusing on what’s behind you while driving is a sure way to end up stuck in a ditch, over the side of a bridge or worse.

Keep Your Eye On the Road!

This is not just common sense, but it is a powerful tool for manifestation as well. When we practice keeping our attention in front of us, i.e. on where we want our lives to go, we become conscious of the huge vista that is laid out before us. We begin to see more options and destinations than we could choose. We get excited about the adventure of our life, and we see things in the future that we would like. We allow desire to take over. We want to reach our destination! We manifest.

Drive it Like Fred or Barney

Our lives are more like the cars from the Flintstones, not the Jetsons. Life momentum and forward motion is created by our own effort. Once we start to put our feet on the ground and apply initiative, we begin moving. Once we are in motion the universe kicks in to help, and we are blessed with momentum. At the same time, we are looking out of our windshields and steering towards our desires. Maybe we change course or take a wrong turn, but we never take our eye off the road. We can always find a different route to where or who we want to be.

The most important thing that I needed to get from this session was that maintaining a forward momentum in life is a repetitive PRACTICE of habits and attention, not something that happens to us or for us. We all get distracted and stuck. Our work is in constantly remembering to lift our heads up and keep focusing forward towards our hopes and dreams.

Happy travels and I’ll see you in Bedrock!

Laura Boone is the co-founder of turnerboone, a fast-growing, commercial furniture dealership based in Atlanta, Georgia. Through her teachings and by example, Laura is committed to helping entrepreneurs use their inherent empathic and intuitive abilities to reach their highest potential. Laura is also an author, speaker, and host of “The Real Ethereal Show” on The Lighter Side Network. She is a practicing empath, psychic and astrologer. She lives in Atlanta with her family and her golden retriever Sunni. Learn more about Laura at www.lauraboone.org & www.thelightersidenetwork.com

Fall is the time of reaping the harvest. In many cultures, it also brings celebrations of thankfulness. Gratitude reaps amazing results at any time of year. The magic is that even being thankful for tiny things can make you feel good, change your outlook on life and bring more good things to you.

When you are thankful, even if it is just lip service, you and the energy around you begins to shift. It is like the research on smiling. Turn the corners of your mouth up and you feel better. The same is true for gratitude. Just the act or statement can begin to change your life for the better.

A client of mine, Sarah had a stepchild that grated on her nerves. As the time for a visit came, Sarah would get more and more tense. I suggested the Thankfulness List. Every day, Sarah was to list a few things that she saw as good about her stepchild. She started with two or three items. Her stepdaughter had pretty eyes; she remembered to bring a jacket, and so forth. Each added positive energy between them. Sarah was no longer looking for every issue; instead her focus was on appreciating. The list grew each day. Amazingly, not only did Sarah feel better, more relaxed and happy with her stepdaughter, but the child became happier and less unruly.

Do you journal? Have you noticed that often a journal becomes a place to vent negative feelings? Understand that the more you write hurt, hate or anger the more power you give it; the worse you feel. Change your life by writing a Gratitude Journal. Each entry of gratitude will start an upward spiral. Your aura will change. People will notice that something is different though they may not be able to put their finger on it. They will feel more attracted to you and like you more.

This was true for Jake. He had heard that journaling was a great way to get the feelings out about his wife, Clara; instead, he was feeling worse. He radiated hurt and anger. His wife pulled away which hurt him more. He decided to give a gratitude journal a try. Each night he wrote only about the good things that happened in his day. In the morning, he found he felt lighter. He spent the day looking for more positive stories to write about. He began to see his wife differently and he wrote his gratitude for having her in his life. He reminisced about their courtship, the trips and the activities that they had enjoyed over the years. The more he found thankfulness, the more he found to be thankful for. He shared these memories and daily joys with Clara. Together they started to smile again.

Thanking the Universe, God or Goddess has a profound effect. It makes you feel better the more you express your gratitude. The energetic aura around you begins to glow more positively; others change how they react to you. This may be a gradual change. Become alert to the shifts and changes.

Magically, thankfulness on this magnitude affects the Law of Attraction. Consider the word attraction. Each thought pulls what you want towards you. Living in thankfulness works for all things. Your attitude gives focus to your desires.

Linda wanted a new job. She sent resumes, went on interviews and each time she went in thinking, “Please God, let me get it. I know I won’t get it; I never get anything I ask for.” She was right she didn’t get the jobs. She felt worse and began to have trouble in other areas of her life.

She had heard of the Law of Attraction, but didn’t understand why it never worked for her. Then during a class Linda learned that thanking for small favors could shift energy. She began to remember to be thankful for the little things. Job interviews went better, and she prayed her appreciation. She realized that showing gratitude should not always come after the fact. The Law of Attraction states that what you ask for starts the changes that make it happen. Stating your desire as if it has already happened makes it clear what you wish and that all barriers are gone. She began saying “Thank you God for the new job. I make $10 an hour more and am more satisfied than in my old job.” A few days later, a friend called. There was a great job at her company, and she wanted to recommend Linda.

The magic of gratitude can be applied all year. Being truly thankful has a power all its own; the more you appreciate all the things, people and experiences in your life the greater you feel in abundance. Give and live in thanks.